Of Woman Born

W. W. Norton & Company

1995

352 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]–304) and index.

978-0393312843

Anger and tenderness -- The «sacred calling» -- The kingdom of the fathers -- The primacy of the mother -- The domestication of motherhood -- Hands of flesh, hands of iron -- Alienated labor -- Mother and son, woman and man -- Motherhood and daughterhood -- Violence : the heart of maternal darkness.

Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own ― as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother―but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.

Motherhood – Mother and child – Feminism

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